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Posted by IngoB (# 8700) on
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Typhoon Hagupit ("Ruby") and I are scheduled to meet in Manila, Philippines, on Monday evening. Your prayers for safe travel and arrival would be appreciated.
Oh, and I don't know when I will next get decent internet access. Could be a while...
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on
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Yikes. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
Posted by Leaf (# 14169) on
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For your safety.
For others who may suffer from this
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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Holding you and the whole of The Philippines in the Light.
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on
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((IngoB and those in the path of this typhoon))
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on
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for the people of the Philippines, and for IngoB.
Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on
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Praying for IngoB and for all!
Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on
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Ingo and all
Be careful, ok? Maybe keep some simple emergency supplies with you. There are emergency flashlights that have a radio and a cell phone charger. FWIW.
Posted by comet (# 10353) on
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Watch your ass and scream into the wind, baby. I look forward to you telling us the tales when you get back.
Posted by churchgeek (# 5557) on
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Lord, hear our prayers.
Posted by mousethief (# 953) on
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Traveling mercies.
Posted by Raptor Eye (# 16649) on
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Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on
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Travel safely, Ingo. May the Lord provide shelter from the storm.
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on
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Checking in.
Posted by IngoB (# 8700) on
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Thanks everybody.
While the weather agencies predicted that I would be flying into 60-100 kph winds and that there was a significant chance of flooding where I am staying due to torrential rain, in fact we landed just fine and ended up having merely some medium heavy rains which barely buckled the river's water levels.
Who says prayers don't work? Thanks again. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Internet sucks though, so I will be quieter for a while (even more answered prayers, eh? ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
).
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on
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Glad to hear you're OK, Ingo - long may that continue!
Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on
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Ingo--
Glad you're ok! Thanks for letting us know.
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Originally posted by IngoB:
Internet sucks though, so I will be quieter for a while (even more answered prayers, eh? ).
ROTFL.
Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Piglet:
Glad to hear you're OK, Ingo - long may that continue!
Hooray and amen! ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on
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Not perhaps in the same league, but dirty weather coming in from the Atlantic. Tonight will be wild in the Isles and wet in the West: ferries not sailing, flooding expected. And snow to follow.
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on
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I don't think it's coming from this particular bit of the Atlantic - it's been calm, sunny and very cold here for the last couple of days.
Famous last words ... ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on
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Glad to hear you made it in one piece, IngoB-- stay safe!
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Piglet:
I don't think it's coming from this particular bit of the Atlantic - it's been calm, sunny and very cold here for the last couple of days.
Coming from Iceland - apparently what's known in the trade as a 'weather bomb'. 45 ft waves off Barra, and winds to 80 mph to come.
Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on
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A much lesser, but fierce, storm is rolling into the San Francisco Bay area today. SF itself doesn't usually do--or need--big storm preparations. But schools are even closing--and, given that most parents hold jobs outside the home, and may not be able to find or afford childcare, that may mean a lot of kids home alone. (I always worry about that.)
The city is, commendably, trying to get the homeless into emergency shelters. But, in non-storm situations, we have many more thousands of people on the street than we have shelter beds.
Anyway, prayers appreciated.
Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on
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Re SF storm:
I'm ok. Power was out this morning. Other than that, I'm fine. Lots and lots of problems all over from the storm.
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on
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It's not that bad so far-- just incrdibly wet. i was freaked out, too, though, as the SFUSD closed all schools. Literally, the last emergency school closure in the district was 9/11. If the SFUSD is cutting kids some slack, one of the four horsemen must be on the way, I thought.
A city of working parents having to relocate their kids is nothing to sniff at, though. And my sis was not only rained out of work downtown, but flooded out of her house next to the redwood city mud flats. She had to hide out in our den until the tide went out.
But hey-- less drought!
[ 11. December 2014, 21:47: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on
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I was thinking about you Californians when some of your weather made it on to the "wild weather" report on the Canadian Weather Channel earlier today.
Hope you're all safe and well.
Posted by basso (# 4228) on
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One thought that popped into my mind today as we watched the traffic go past was this:
This is the first really big storm we've had in the Bay Area in six years. That means that there is a whole group of drivers out there on the roads who have never driven in a rainstorm.
California drivers are notorious as it is for forgetting from year to year that things change when it rains. (¨It takes longer to stop on a wet, oily road? Are you sure about that?¨)
Introducing a flock of novices could add a whole level of scary to that.
(We had the time to talk about things like that while the power was out and we didn't have much to do but clean up.)
Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on
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Praying!! <3
Posted by DangerousDeacon (# 10582) on
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Lots of storms here, but no cyclones (yet!).
All this as we commemorate the 40th Anniversary of Cyclone Tracy, which destroyed most of the city early on the morning of Christmas Day, 1974.
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